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Skip to main content menu Articles Issues Blogs Video Subscribe Contact Us Search English Deutsch Français Español Articles Issues Blogs Video Subscribe Contact Us English Deutsch Français Español Winter 2011Religion and SpiritualityHell: Origins of an IdeaRichard BurkyJeannette B. AndersonMany religious groups po

In many mythological, folklore and religious traditions, hell is a place of torment and punishment in an afterlife . It is viewed by most Abrahamic traditions as punishment . Religion s with a linear divine history often depict hells as eternal destinations. Religions with a cyclic history often depict a hell as an int